Anybody getting in one day one of the iPad sales?

Me neither.

Couple interesting tidbits have been clarified or changed since the announcement though.

They've added a "Screen Rotation Lock" button. On the left is what they showed us @ the launch. The right is what is presently for sale...


This is good if your reading lying down or whatever... nothing more annoying as when I'm playing a game on my iPod touch and it flips orientation because I tilt too far.

Also, they've explained how the data service stuff works. Looks super easy.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/12/apple-details-ipad-3g-service-sign-up-and-management/

Not sure if I have the disposable income to get one day 1, but I'm looking into it.

MBP refresh is looking imminent so I'm saving my dough for that drop...

Buddy of mine ordered on Friday for pickup in the store.  I debated but am looking to get a new machine this year so that's probably out for the time being.  I do need something portable though, so I will be looking to get one eventually.

The screen lock is tits, I hope it remembers the setting for apps.

 

Don't see much point in having a still camera on there, but the potential for iChat sounds awesome.

This isn't a phone, you're not going to replace it in a year or two, are we sure the 3G network will be the definitive data network 3 or 4 years from now?

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/26/project-gutenberg-ebooks-will-be-included-in-the-ibookstore-for/

Project Gutenberg ebooks will be included in the iBookstore for free
by Chris Rawson (RSS feed) on Mar 26th 2010 at 1:00AM

Two days ago we told you that Project Gutenberg's ebooks should be compatible with the iPad, and we even showed you some ways to get around any possible restrictions Apple could have imposed on the vast catalog of free ebooks. Well, it looks like those workarounds won't be necessary, because according to appadvice, the entire Project Gutenberg catalog will be offered for free from the iBookstore.

Project Gutenberg has a library of over 30,000 books online, with classic titles from all walks of literature. Apple's not only supporting access to this vast library of works, they're officially offering it from within their own store, for free. This is a pretty classy move from Apple, and one that makes the iPad a very attractive purchase for anyone interested in reading the classics without shelling out a whole lot of money for them.

Here are the Top 100 Project Gutenberg titles:

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1128)
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (619)
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (601)
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (447)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (417)
Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (401)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (390)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (343)
Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language (299)
All About Coffee by William H. Ukers (284)
Our Day by William Ambrose Spicer (272)
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (271)
Ulysses by James Joyce (264)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (261)
Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (252)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (248)
History of the United States by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard (244)
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (236)
Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise (233)
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens (223)
Call Him Savage by John Pollard (217)
General Science by Bertha M. Clark (212)
The Iliad by Homer (211)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (211)
The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery (209)
Irish Fairy Tales (202)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (196)
The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed (186)
The Art of War by Sunzi 6th cent. B.C. (185)
The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy (184)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (181)
War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy (177)
Screw-Thread Cutting by the Master-Screw Method since 1480 by Edwin A. Battison (176)
The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. Rees (175)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (174)
Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (174)
Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank (170)
Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by John Keats (168)
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English by Ray Vaughn Pierce (167)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (166)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (164)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père (158)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (156)
Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw (156)
The Aesop for Children by Aesop (154)
England, Picturesque and Descriptive by Joel Cook (152)
Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney (152)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (148)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (146)
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (142)
A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter (141)
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (141)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (140)
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 by Various (139)
The Art of Stage Dancing by Ned Wayburn (138)
Myths of the Norsemen by H. A. Guerber (138)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (138)
The Mafulu by Robert Wood Williamson (137)
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (136)
Concrete Construction by Halbert Powers Gillette and Charles Shattuck Hill (136)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 by Various (134)
The Sex Side of Life by Mary Dennett (132)
My Lady of the Chimney Corner by Alexander Irvine (130)
Mexico by C. Reginald Enock (129)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (128)
Emma by Jane Austen (126)
Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous (126)
Emma by Jane Austen (126)
The Child's Day by Woods Hutchinson (125)
On the Trail by Adelia B. Beard and Lina Beard (124)
The Infant's Skull by Eugène Sue (123)
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts (122)
The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley (121)
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget (121)
Devil Stories by Various (120)
The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (117)
Across Unknown South America by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (116)
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (116)
Susan B. Anthony by Alma Lutz (115)
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 by Elbert Hubbard (115)
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete by Dante Alighieri (114)
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland by Alexander Bethune (114)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (114)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (113)
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique by J. W. H. Eyre (112)
The Stowmarket Mystery by Louis Tracy (111)
New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson (110)
Beeton's Book of Needlework by Mrs. Beeton (108)
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx (104)
Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (103)
The Marvelous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum (103)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (102)
Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla (102)
A Book of Natural History (101)
The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks (99)
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (99)
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe (99)
Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig (99)
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (98)
Why do we need a public library? by Various (97)

geez does that play into apple's hands.  Not that it's anything new, but when publicized along with the iPad, both only benefit.